13th May 1899 Third Lanark 1 Partick Thistle 0 (Glasgow League - game 10)

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Match Information

					McKay [ii]; Jamie Auchincloss; Andy Wilson; Robert Campbell; Wattie Collier; Geordie McNicoll; Miller
					James Gourlay; Harding; L. Rae; George Allan [i]; Frank Waddell; Graham [i]; James Watson
Alex Davidson (0-1, 10 mins)
			M. Williams		McKay [ii]
			Hawthorn		Jamie Auchincloss			26y, 1m, 10d
			Robert Thomson		Andy Wilson			23y, 9m, 18d
			James Simpson		Bob Duncan			24y, 7m, 9d
			George McCue		Dick Richmond			20y, 1m, 11d
			Thomas Morice		Robert Campbell			17y, 11m, 27d
			future Jag Tom Gibbons		Wattie Collier			22y, 5m, 21d
			James Hannah		Geordie McNicoll
			Alex Davidson		Willie Paul			33y, 3m, 6d
			John Cross		Robert Gray			23y, 2m, 12d
			James Muir		Miller
								23y, 11m, 10d

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Match Report

TTA report

A single goal (10) settled this closely fought match in which Thistle fought pluckily but the forwards were poor. They did “score“ once but it was disallowed.

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Glasgow Herald, 15th May, 1899

Scottish Referee, 15th May, 1899

Stats Watch

● The closing game of the 24th season of Partick Thistle F.C.

● Miller registers his only-known appearance for Thistle.

● McKay [ii] registers his only-known appearance for Thistle.

● 20-year-old Dick Richmond makes his last-known appearance for Thistle.

● 26-year-old Jamie Auchincloss makes his last-known appearance for Thistle.

● Thistle lose a fifth consecutive competitive game versus Third Lanark, the H2H joint-record.

ongoing sequences:

● 5 consecutive competitive away defeats; 25th Feb 1899 to date. (Longest run since the club-record: 11 defeats; 4th Dec 1897 to 15th Oct 1898.)

● 7 competitive games without a win, 18th Mar 1899 to date. (Longest run since: 7 games, 29th Oct 1898 to 17th Dec 1898. Club-record: 14 games, 3rd Jan 1898 to 15th Oct 1898.)

● 7 consecutive competitive defeats, 18th Mar 1899 to date. (Longest run since the club-record: 14 defeats, 3rd Jan 1898 to 15th Oct 1898.)

● 21 away games without a clean-sheet in the League; 27th Feb 1897 to date. (Longest run since the club-record: 32 games; 19th Aug 1893 to 23rd Jan 1897.)

● 27 consecutive competitive appearances for Bob Duncan, 1st Oct 1898 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: John C. Spence - 36 games, 14th Nov 1896 to 26th Mar 1898. Club-record: Willie Freebairn - 44 games, 27th May 1893 to 13th Apr 1895.)

● 30 competitive away games without a clean-sheet; 27th Feb 1897 to date. (Longest run since the club-record: 90 games; 31st Oct 1885 to 23rd Jan 1897.)

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